the drupal.org redesign project

design by community

leisa reicheltdisambiguity.com

with markboultondesign.com

‘Drupal is an open source social publishing platform that allows an individual or a community

of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.

Begun as a hobby project of Dries Buytaert, it was first released as an open source project in 2001 and

has steadily grown in popularity ever since.’

Fast CompanyThe Onion

Seattle Times MTV UKSony BMG

Belgium GovernmentMike BloombergAOL CorporateSun Open Office

UbuntuYahoo!Adobe

United NationsAmnesty International

World BankHarvard Science

Science Museum of Minneapolis

720,000 unique visitors / monthhomepage viewed 1 million times/month

300,000+ users300 new users per day

375,000 discussion threads4:1 response rate on general discussions

10:1 response rate on dev. discussions

how do you redesign the home of such an active,

engaged community?

how do you design in an ‘open source’ way?

design by & with community

recruiting participation - Google Apps Forms

openly blogging the processasking questions

openly blogging the processasking questions

engaging with existing community infrastructure

crowdsourcing design (wireframes)

online card sorting(information architecture)

recruit *more* participation(search.twitter.com)

lightweight communication with community via Twitter

knowledge sharing & empowering - wikicrowdsourcing usability testing

rapid, iterative, open prototyping

rapid, iterative, open prototyping

are you guys nuts?

design by committeevs

design by community

get involved!

contact me:leisa@disambiguity.com

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